Exam question 3 · Andersen tales, George and little Emily, part 155: George…

Which illness kept Emily confined to her bed, according to the doctor's regular visits?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: illness, Emily, doctor · What happens: keep, confine, accord, visit · To what, where: bed

This is exam question 3 of lesson 944 «Andersen tales, George and little Emily, part 155: George is confirmed, gets a hymn-book from Emily, and sends her pictures while she is ill» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 illness	det
2	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Emily	Emily	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 confined	nsubj
5	confined	confine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 kept	ccomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 bed	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 bed	nmod:poss
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 confined	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 kept	punct
10	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 visits	case
11	to	to	ADP	_	10 according	fixed
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 doctor	det
13	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 visits	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 doctor	case
15	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 visits	amod
16	visits	visit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kept	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 kept	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	keep	past	which illness		accord the doctor's regular visits	tree rules
2	confine	past	Emily	Emily's bed		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to bed=Destination
3	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
4	visit		the doctor			nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

a broken leg that kept her in a chair by the window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 leg	det
2	broken	broken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 leg	amod
3	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kept	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 chair	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 chair	det
9	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obl
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 window	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 window	det
12	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	a broken leg	her = she		a chair		by the window	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in chair=Location

Option 2

a slow wasting illness that confined her to bed for months

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 illness	det
2	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 illness	amod
3	wasting	wasting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 illness	compound
4	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 confined	nsubj
6	confined	confine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 illness	acl:relcl
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 confined	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 bed	case
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 confined	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 months	case
11	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 confined	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	confine	past	a slow wasting illness	her = she		bed	month		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to bed=Destination

Option 3

a cough that kept her indoors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cough	det
2	cough	cough	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cough	acl:relcl
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	obj
6	indoors	indoors	ADV	_	4 kept	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	a cough	her = she				indoors property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

an illness that confined her to bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 illness	det
2	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 confined	nsubj
4	confined	confine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 illness	acl:relcl
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 confined	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 bed	case
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 confined	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	confine	past	a illness	her = she		bed			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to bed=Destination

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